DIRTY PRETTY THINGS

MPAA Rating:

for sexual content, disturbing images and language

Moral Rating:

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Moviemaking Quality:

Primary Audience:

Adult

Genre:

Crime/Gangster and Thriller

Length:

1 hr. 47 min.

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric | Directed by: Stephen Frears | Produced by: racey Seaward, Robert Jones | Distributor: Miramax

Year of Release—2003

Movie Critics

…an exciting but brainy, cross-cultural thriller about modern London and life in a contemporary urban pressure cooker, and it depends more on plot, character and atmosphere than it does on chases and gunfire…
—Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

…stirs mystery in social commentary… smart direction, give the movie a gripping edge, both as biting social commentary and as a pulse-pounding mystery…
—Margaret A. McGurk, The Cincinnati Enquirer

…Despite its provocative title… “Dirty Pretty Things” doesn’t crackle with intensity. Although the film delves into an interesting topic—black marketeers trading in human flesh—the approach is far too clinical… it’s definitely more dirty than pretty.
—Bill Muller, The Arizona Republic